Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
Last week it was a woman's turn to be president of the National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...
Cudahy. "Not since the company purchased its first carload of live stock over 47 years ago," declared Chairman Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., "has it been confronted with so many entirely new problems as during the past year. The processing tax on the live weight of hogs slaughtered . . . has cost us between nine and ten million dollars for the year. This in part was our contribution to the $101,945,334 which the AAA recently stated was paid to Corn-Hog Farmers up to Oct. 1. In view of the close association of our industry with agriculture ... it is especially gratifying...
Graduate architects he employed by the carload. With the great building program of the New Deal well under way, there were nearly 1,700 of them hunched over draughting boards in the Supervising Architect's office. That fact has been the latest plaint of private architects against the Administration. It was a New Deal promise in April of 1934 that all Public Works projects costing over $60,000 would be awarded to private architects. Last month President Ralph Thomas Walker of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects charged that this was not being done, sent official...